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by infecto 61 days ago
I guess if you want to go that deep sure they sometimes offer early access, access to new agents/models but ultimately it’s a function of tokens. The selling point for most/all providers is x times the usage. You are upgrading for the token access.

Claude was the topic at hand and higher tiers buy you more tokens. I know some like Gemini bundle a ton of junk alongside the tokens but you really are still buying yourself more tokens. There is nothing premium in a $200 Claude account. You are buying more tokens, $100 is the same as $200 except token count. Hope that helps. ;)
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Dylan16807 61 days ago
> $100 is the same as $200 except token count

But I was making an argument about the $10 plans, not the $100 plans.

Claude doesn't even go that low. Except the free plan which has a very reduced feature list.

Claude's $20 and $100 are pretty similar except tokens, that part is true. So they're a bit higher priced and more of the "it's just tokens" model. But the market as a whole is mostly selling a limited feature set down at lower price points. On average, getting up to the point where you have full access and are paying per-token is itself a premium jump.

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infecto 61 days ago
You are standing on top of an ant hill and I still don’t fully understand your position. The original post was about the premium service Anthropic plans. There is no such thing, you are simply paying for more tokens. Hope that helps.
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Dylan16807 61 days ago
Any $200/month AI plan is premium. Hope that helps.
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infecto 61 days ago
I know why I typically don’t respond to your posts. So much said and I am still not sure your point. You have ignored the original point and gone off on a tangent.

It is not a premium service that deserves special care which was what the original commenter stated. It is a $200 account that buys you $400+ on tokens.

Hope that helps recenter this weird path we are following. :)

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Dylan16807 61 days ago
> gone off on a tangent

What? What I just said was my one and only point from the very beginning. The price is so much higher than the median that that makes it premium and deserving of some special care.

I understand your point of view here, and it's fine if you disagree with mine but it's weird if you don't at least understand my point by now. You saying my last comment is a tangent suggests you don't understand me. But it's a simple point and I'm not sure how to make it clearer.

Does that help recenter?

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